Show Aerial Farm Operated On Hotel Roof r j jj sj f-sj i J S Q tAJ J t i fc i J Owner Raises Poultry and Vegetables I I J J ev Duane Wallick manages m the tile ore hotel In Providence K n. L. L and conducts a I. I modern farm on Its roof Here he Is with his Ills chickens By II y NEA oE Service Serice Sen ice PROVIDENCE CE R. R I I. I Oct 22 Hundreds of hotels have hate roof gardens with a few fosters flowers ers o or or such Some hotels are the foundations of houses ind and cottages I But as ILS far as Is known the I Providence Biltmore has the only aerial farm In the world I Here lIere feet above abose I. I the busiest street of the city Is an around all farm I At present there are arc chick chIck- chickens chIckens ens and hens besides 20 Mus Mus- covy ducks and 75 ducklings It If it for the fact Mus-I Mus that ducks have wings wines the Biltmore could boast of a much larger flock Duane ua Wallick m directing etin manager I I of the e Biltmore e Hotel end and owner I of or this unique farm started t. with about 30 ducks But about a j year car ar ago one of them learned how to use its wings The whole flock nock followed ed and last las laa seen they were headed for Narra- Narra Narragansett Bay VEGETABLES LES AND FLOWERS After Arter that experience the coops were covered ered with wire The vegetables grown on this farm arc are of several se varieties varieties- onions beans radishes lettuce and beets Grapes also thrive here To name nome the different kinds of flowers would require too much space Concrete flower boxes have ha been built around the entire roof and along the en enclosures en- en enclosures closures for the ducks and chickens The farm was started rt d about I three years ago g from a su tion of or Carroll E. E 1 T chief engineer of the hotel IT IT PAYS TOO Six hens liens and a rooster were thus given a home feet above the re rest boI city's busiest streets st They thrived rl and the hens proved good layers Wallick now believes es that he can keep chicks on the roof with with- without without out bothering his flowers Clowers and vegetables Besides being an interesting hobby this farm proves itself worth while An average of eight dozen eggs is to produced ro d on this unique farm every csery e day A fish pool rabbits and latest of all some monkeys all go to toward to- to toward toward ward making It a menagerie as well as a farm Two glass enclosed cases allow the monkeys to sun them them- themselves themselves selves in the winter tl ter without u freezing |